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environment for their children. Because scientific
data overwhelmingly demonstrate that there is no
relationship between the sexual orientation of
parents and any measure of children’s emotional,
psychosocial and behavioral adjustment; and
because the United Methodist Church believes ‘the
family to be the basic human community through
which persons are nurtured and sustained in mutual
love, responsibility, respect and fidelity’; and because
the United Methodist Church ‘encourages social,
economic and religious efforts to maintain and
strengthen relationships within families’; we con
clude that civil marriage, civil unions and legally
recognized domestic partnerships are beneficial to
children, regardless of the gender of the parents,
because they strengthen families and help foster
financial and legal security, psychological and social
stability, and an enhanced sense of societal accept
ance and support. We support efforts to legally
recognize same-gender relationships and claim that
laws which ban the legal recognition of same-gender
relationships actively harm the health and well
being of children all over the nation."
Seattle Pride Marchers
Confront Minutemen
A multiracial contingent of marchers at
Seattle’s Gay Pride parade displayed banners read
ing, “Love Knows No Borders: Unite for Queer and
Immigrant Rights." Met with boisterous cheers by
onkxikers, the group chanted, “No Minutemen, no
KKK, no fascist U.S.A."
Before arriving at the
Queer Fest at the conclu
sion of the parade, the
group peeled off and
marched from Seattle’s gay
Capitol Hill neighborhixxl
to the Federal Building
downtown to protest anti
immigrant groups. Included
in those groups were the
Minutemen, who were
holding a “March for
America" rally on the same
day, June 23.
With rainbow banners
and the flags of many
nations, the Pride group
picked up supporters along
the way, according to Susan
Docekal of the Seattle
Freedom Socialist Party.
They formed a picket
Seattle Gay Pride parade marchers crashed an anti-immigration rally.
line across the street from
the Minutemen rally and chanted at top volume,
Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity joined the
gay protest leader Elias Holtz told the Freedom
Capitol Hill contingent, which then met with the
Socialist Party. Within 45 minutes, he said, the
International Socialist Organization. The socialist
Minutemen packed up and left.
group had followed the Minutemen from their
An impromptu victory party formed between
original meeting point at the Space Needle.
gays and allies, immigrants, Latinos, African
López estimated the group of immigrant rights
Americans, Asian Americans, whites and others
supporters at 100.
who support immigration rights.
The March for America was part of a national
Seattle Radical Women organizer Christina
effort by a coalition of anti-immigration groups,
Lopez said supporters from the Seattle Anti
including the Minutemen. A Northwest white
Imperialist Committee and union members from
power organization also publicized the Seattle
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es amnesty and calls for securing the borders and
“protecting American culture and the English
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